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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 20:42:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <9405312357.AA11445@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405312048.A28027-0100000@undergrad>
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On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
> Michel Forget wrote:
> >
> >If this was a "verbose mode" option (ie: it could be turned off) then
> >it would be good. I've never made this mistake, though, so I would
> >be very annoyed if the program kept asking me questions every time
> >I tried to perform a 'dangerous' block operation.
>
> You must delete entire documents very often :).
>
> ^A[DELETE] is a dangerous combination.
>
> [drag-large-area][DELETE] is not.
>
> Only if the entire document is to be deleted is the operation dangerous.
>
> --
> Warwick
>
^A+ANYTHING is a bad combination. It's not ctrl-A or what happens after
that is the problem, but rather the combination. Since what happens
after is always going to happen, and the only thing that remains the same
is the ctrl-A, then removing the ctrl-A would solve the problem.